Sliding hook



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Inventor s LUC I EN MAGNAN RRY sw zMAN l Attorney Patented Feb. 23, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENT 1 OFFICE 'p 2,670,1ssfff i V f f S'LIDIYNG Hoon* Lucien Magnan and Harry Switzman, .Montreall,. f y* Quebec, Canada Y ApplicationSeptember 19, 1949," Serial No."116;424l

Our present invention relates to improvements in a sliding hook and appertains particularly to one suitable for use with a clothes drier or the like or any comparable device where it is desired to raise and lower a suspending hook-like member to different elevations. f

An object of the invention is to provide a cord or cable-carried hook, slidable in or on a supporting rod, having means for positively raisingv and lowering the hook and for resisting accidental or unwanted descent thereof.V

A further objectV of the invention is the provision of a sliding hook for use in supporting diverse items, such as a clothes line, at various selected levels having a frame like structure adaptable for mounting on a wall or other vertical surface.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a sliding hook of the nature and for the purposes described that is characterized by structural simplicity, durability and eiciency, ease of operation and low cost of production and installation whereby the same is rendered commercially desirable;

To the accomplishment of these and related objects as shall become apparent as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as shall be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated pointed out 'in the claims hereunto appended.

The invention will be best understood and can be more clearly described when reference is had to the drawings forming a part of this disclosure wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of a preferred form of my sliding hook;

Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical section through the upper portion thereof;

Figure 3 is an elevation of a modified form of the invention adapted for outside use; and

Figure 4 is an enlarged transverse, horizontal section therethrough as taken on the line 4-4 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

The principal features of the invention will be seen to reside in the form and manner of mounting the hook with relation to the elongated rod or carrying member, of raising, lowering and anchoring the hook and of constructing and attaching the frame-like structure.

In our invention we prefer to use a hollow tube I of any desired length with a narrow slot 2 therein running almost from end to end. By

in the accompanying drawings, and

2 claims.l 101.248.4295) ILV means of Aa threaded nipple 3, a U-shaped pulleyblock 4 is secured to each end, offsetting laterally therefrom, and each having a pulley 5 rotatableV therein. Tube-embracing brackets 6, attached thereto by recessed studs 'I concealed in the rear face, serve to mount the tube and its appurtenances, as for instance on an apartment room wall.v Running through the tube I and overthespaced pulleys 5 is a cable 8 whose opposite' and exposed ends are united in a two-part clamping coupling 9. One end, preferably the lower, is anchored therein as by the 'screw fastener 9a while the other end, entering the coupling axially, emerges llaterally through av radial bore 9b, being adjustably drawable through the coupling and selectably clamped therein by a wing nut and bolt 9c that draws the parts of the split coupling lightly together in cable gripping relation, The second lor adiustably'clamped end'of the cable 8 is terminally provided 'with a handypull ring II).

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figures 1 and 2, the U-shaped pulley blocks are seen to extend sideways from vthe tube I and thus '-lie closely against the wall ofthe room. They are wider than necessary tocarry the sheaves or pulleys and are each provided with a cable-passing perforation 4a'in the base of the U and in line 'with theV pulleysjcircumference. If :this sheave block were narrower the bore could be eliminated as the cable could pass clear of the base of the block but it will be found useful, as when the cable 8 is run around the pulleys 5 until the coupling 9 engages the base of the U-shaped block and is stopped thereby, for facilitating the operation of the wing nut 9c and the tightening or loosening of the cable in the clamping coupling.

The hook II is threaded in a cylindrical block I2 centrally bored for the accommodation of the cable 8 and firmly secured thereto by a pair of recessed, radially disposed, cable-engaging set screws I3. The block has a close sliding t in the tube I and the laterally projecting hook Il extends outwards through the slot 2 in the front of the tube, thus lying at right angles to the plane of its carrying cable.

A modified form of hook and supporting column is seen in Figures 3 and 4. Here the hook I5 is mounted on a ring or annulus I6 that surrounds the post or pipe I1 instead of travelling in it, as in the former case. Obviously this hook and column could be mounted and cable operated as in the previously described form. However, we have shown the hooks ring I6 as provided lations to which it is readily adaptable, and to l0 which it is commended in part at least by the. ease with which the hook can be secured at the desired level by simply tightening the cableiendl that is slidably in the coupling..

nection with the accompanyingdrawings, it`will" be manifest that a sliding hb'okiisiprovidedftliat-f= will fulfil all the necessary requirementsofsuch a device, but as many changes could bemade in the above description and many apparently 20 widely-r diffrentembodiments =f othe invention# mayfbeiconstructed withinf-'therscopefof 'the ape E pended vclairnsfwithout fde'partinguf rom th'e spirit l* or scope thereof, it is intended that all matters#v tin-and drawings shall `be-=interpretedf`as fillusf; trativ'ef-l and f not in f a f limitative or restrictive senseil 1:" A'sliding hookl structure comprising a hollow f 30 pipeehavingf arr elongated-slot therein; a hollow,- exteriorlyfthreadedfinrppleprojecting fromy each' end-ioifrfsaid 'pipe--anofisettingushaped pulley block-1on1' each end'fofisaid'pip'ef fsecured- 'thereto' byvsaid'frespectiy'ef nipples; said; f U -lshapedblocksf 35 tionuinrsaidffblock'so:thattha axis: of thea nipple` 40 and perforationzareetangentialEto theY pulley,- a -cableA havingsits'vends connected fandencircling saidl pulleysyone' lengthr of saidfcable passing through saidfhollow :pipe and inipples v and the others. and'parallel .ilength 'passing'fthrough the 45 block" perforations'fsand. extending :exi-,erio'rly ofl said pipe; with ithef connectedv "endssof said I`cable ocourringxinfthef external reach; t ai' cylindrical carrierz-slidable'-in esaidpipevand fzsecuredzlin 'lone 4 gitudinally adjustable relation to said cable intermediate the connected ends thereof; and a hook-like member projecting from said carrier 5 through the slot in said pipe.

2. An article of manufacture for use in an apartment clothes drier or the like, comprising a length of hollow pipe having an elongated slot; walln mountinggbrackets partiallyembracing said pipe;.; a@ hollow, exteriorly threaded.- nipple in each end of said pipe; a U-shaped pulley block secured by said respective nipples in laterally oiset relation to opposite ends of said pipe, each Uz-.shaped block having a perforation in the base 4401",.,the U spaced from said nipple; a pulley in From the foregoing descriptiontaken in'conl5" eachl.of"`said"'blocks; a cable passing through said'pipe and nipples and over said pulleys thencerthroughsitlieqaerforations in the base of said U-shaped pulley blocks; a coupling member adjustably joining .the free ends of said cable exteriorly of said pipe and engageable with either'o 'said-iu-sliaped pulley blocks as a stop;

a=cylindrical carrier-adjustably secured orr'lsaid'y cable and-fsli'dable longitudinallywithin said pipe-- and-a hook-secured =in'-said carrier and 'project ing-:through the' slot' in said pipe; whereby #the hook carrier may be -sospositioned"alongfthe= interior reachvof vsaid cablelthat thefendy coupling member Aon the-Lextern'al 'reach of' saidfcable;

may1 act as af stop on 'engaging either perforated Ushaped pulley block'fto limit movement of said hook in said pipe slot:

LUCIEN- MAGNAN:

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